Robocalls

 but answering the phone may not be...

Beware if the phone rings at your home if you live in CT 5.

My wife told me today that washed up Hollywood actor Mike Farrell   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268286/ is busy making the phone ring with some prerecorded liberal song-and-dance about how wonderful my empty suit sophomoric freshman congressman, Chris Murphy, is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy_(politician)

I'm sure that wasn;t much of an imposition for Mr. Farrell, whose biography reveals he's been less busy in the past 25 years than the Maytag repairman.

I know living out in Henry Waxman's district Farrell may be blissfully unaware of this fact, but here in staid old CT robocalls are despised!

There was a huge outcry over robocalls in the last election in CT and the General Assembly came very close to banning the practice http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=407&which_year=2008&SUBMIT1.x=6&SUBMIT1.y=8

I suspect the average CT voter thinks these things were already banned by the Do Not Call Act. I  look forward to Murphy explaining to annoyed  voters why they weren't .

Hopefully, right of center folks will avoid this tactic around here as I can assure you it will result in less support for the cause, not more.

But maybe this one makes sense. After the debacle of the energy and financial markets the Democrats in Congress have presided over, maybe their spokesman really ought to be someone who worked in a M.A.S.H unit

Freedom's Watch is targetting 30 congressional districts held by Democrats with robocalls attacking Democrats record on military issues. Listen to the robocall here.

The districts are:

AZ-05, AZ-08, CA-51, CA-11, CT-2, FL-16, GA-08, IL-08, KS-02, LA-06, MD-05, MD-08, MS-01, NH-01, NV-01, NY-20, OH-18, PA-07, PA-10, PA-08, PA-12, TX-22, TX-23, CT-05, KY-03, NH-02, PA-04, WI-08, NY-19, IL-14

With the exception of MD-08 (Rep. Van Hollen, the DCCC Chair), these are districts that many analysts think that the GOP can apply pressure and/or seats that the Dems took in 2006.

The calls, featuring Beverly Perlson, the founder of Band of Mothers, discuss the Congressional Democrats leaving for vacation while the troop funding bill has not been passed. Mrs. Perlson has written about this at NRO.

The script is after the jump.